Tribbles ! :grinning:. Every Star Trek show needs a Tribbles episode. They're so furry and cute and.. impossible to get rid of.
What the hell did I just watch
H Jon Benjamin in Star Trek? Sign me up.
For some reason this is already out on Crave. It's very funny.
Terrible, STD is trying so hard to be the Orville, but just as the hack writers don't understand Trek, it seems they also don't understand humour.
While a fun Tribble episode, had terrible calls on the Captain's part... Consider Reginald Barclay: when he wasn't performing, Riker and Geordi wanted him transferred. Picard refused, and pushed the two to get to get to know Barclay more. Barclay's arc was a wonderful one, and taught that team work pays off... Here the lesson is to obey orders and avoid scientific discovery.
Annoying episode. People thinking the new captain did wrong with transfer the idiot and comparing to Barclay on TNG really needs to see the difference in the action of the characters.
This was fuckin' stupid. What a waste of a great cast.
Amazing episode - absolute comedic genius.
Larkin is the man! A true genius!
[5.8/10] Look, I don't want to declare that Discovery can’t do comedy. We’ve seen great stuff with Harry Mudd in this version of Trek, and other comic moments. But the truth is that the tone of this take on the franchise is typically very severe and self-serious, the visual presentation a bit antiseptic, and the tone a bit detached, which is a really tough environment to gin up laughs in.
“The Trouble with Edward” tries, but it more or less dies on the vine. That’s a real shame, considering how much I enjoy Tribbles, H. Jon Benjamin, and the occasions when Star Trek just gets silly. The editing here is pretty languid and doesn't really work with the comic timing to make these gags land. (It’s no coincidence that the editing on Archer is near-perfect and works for the show’s tone and rat-a-tat humor really well.)
There’s a solid enough throughline about the whole “mediocre white man” ruining it for everyone thing, but it’s done very bluntly, which lessens its impact. And while I can appreciate a good touch of continuity, I don’t know that I ever really needed to know the origin of tribbles, let alone that they would turn out to be the product of one bitter idiot screwing with genetic engineering on a Starfleet ship.
That said, the closing faux-cereal commercial is really funny,, if for no other reason than it has to match the tone and editing tropes of those types of ads, which gives it a comic potency missing from the rest of the short.
Overall, this one is a real missed opportunity, taking a solid enough idea and a great performer, and sinking them with a substandard script and presentation, and unnecessary retcons.
Brilliant. I loved the acting from H. Jon Benjamin who voices Archer and Bob from Bob's Burgers... so funny and so my cup of tea... I couldn't stop laughing. What a perfect casting and a neat break from the normal space tension.... "One fell off the table and literally died, so there's that."
OH MY GOD....
"We have the meats!" -- Too funny
And, I had no idea Arby's Sandwich Chef was Archer or Bob from Bob's Burgers.... Archer, Yow! hahaha
In an alternate dimension we got the story of the intricate but dastardly plan of a scientist using an illegal experiment to attempt to skew the Klingon war in the favor of Star Fleet. What he did was shut down by the Rule of Law that Starfleet has, the scientist was courtmarshalled and everything about it was kept under wraps by the darker side of StarFleet (aka Section 31). But as we could all have seen at the ending of the episode: one Tribble accidentally survived and got a way onboard a Klingon vessel headed for their space... or was it S31 after all.
In our world however we got this.
That's what a "Short Trek" should be: fun, fast-paced, and memorable. Enjoyed it a lot.
Shout by Paladin5150BlockedParent2019-10-12T00:35:26Z
Any TOS devotee will instantly recognize what this "Short Trek" involves, but, as a rather hilarious origin (in the ST Universe) story, I hereby certify it as 100% FRESH!
And for those who may not recognize...... All hail CAPTAIN Alita, (Tribble) Battle Angel! And be sure to stick around for the "commercial" at the end. It's pregnant with FLAVOR! (ewwwww)